Museum location: 5917 S. 196th St., Kent. Displays: Before or after watching this weekend’s hydroplane races on Lake Washington, a stop here will round out the experience and leave your head spinning ...

The Miss DiJulio/J&D’s thunderboat is moved into Lake Washington for this weekend’s hydroplane races. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) The roar of this weekend’s Seafair hydroplane races on Lake ...

KENT, Wash. – Back when he was a kid growing up in Seattle, David Williams knew well the thrill of hydroplane racing. Back then, in the summers of the late 1950s and early 1960s, it was the sport in ...

What do you do? I am the executive director of the Hydroplane and Raceboat Museum [in Kent]. We are the nation’s only museum dedicated exclusively to powerboat racing. Unlike many museums, all of our ...

Eric Mann, 43, is a vintage-hydroplane owner and president of the Hydroplane and Raceboat Museum, 1650 S. 93rd St., near Boeing Field. He's also an electrical engineer with Cypress Semiconductor with ...

Jimmie Johnson is set to ride the "Blue Blaster" and fans can get the chance to meet and see the NASCAR driver Lake Washington by bidding at the Motorsports Hall of Fame auction. Motorsports Hall of ...

The Bluebird K7, the world's first successful jet-engined hydroplane and a multiple-record holder for speed on water, is back at home in Coniston, Cumbria, in the UK. Its road back home was long, ...

The Hydroplane & Raceboat Museum in Kent will host its annual Hydros & Hot Rods Vintage Car & Hydroplane Show on Saturday, ...

The Museum of North Idaho is about to publish Stephen Shepperd’s book about the love-hate relationship that the city of Coeur d’Alene has with hydroplane racing. There’s a coupla chapters that feature ...

Got to hand it to the folks at the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America for coming up with unique auctions to help support the Hall of Fame and its mission of honoring racing greats. The latest such ...

MILL CREEK — Peter Olesen is squeezed into the tiny cockpit of an 11-foot racing boat that sits on a trailer in front of his Mill Creek home, fiddling with the steering wheel. He, his father, Steve, ...

A West Richland couple sat in the shade Sunday watching the boats and jets speed past on the Columbia River. Glenn and Terri Grant have been coming to the Tri-City hydroplane races for more than 35 ...